Aleyrodes spiraeoides Quaintance 1900

Dooley Iii, John W., Lambrecht, Susan & Honda, Jeffrey, 2010, Eight new state records of aleyrodine whiteflies found in Clark County, Nevada and three newly described taxa (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae, Aleyrodinae), Insecta Mundi 2010 (140), pp. 1-36 : 15

Aleyrodes spiraeoides Quaintance 1900

Diagnosis. Puparium: Habitus. Very large (1115μm in length by 830μm in width), yellow, round to elliptical in shape, dorsum and surrounding surface often dusted with powdery white wax. Slide mounted specimen-Lateral margin. Crenulate with an undifferentiated tracheal cleft. Dorsum. Papillae and tracheal folds lacking; A 7 medial area as wide as that of A 6. Vasiform orifice. Orifice subcordate to triangular in shape with operculum covering half the vasiform orifice with conical lingula exposed. Venter. Smooth with faint c audal furrow. Pores. Indistinct or absent. Chaetotaxy. Caudal setae minute to fairly long.

Nevada distribution. Panaca (Lincoln County).

Nevada hosts. Solanaceae : Solanum tuberosum .

Comments. Not collected since 1961 in Lincoln County, Nevada.